Java is like writing story.

Here is a code to get md5 signature for a text

public static String MD5(String text) 
        throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, UnsupportedEncodingException  {
                MessageDigest md;
                md = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");                
                byte[] md5hash = new byte[32];   
                md.update(text.getBytes("iso-8859-1"), 0, text.length());
                md5hash = md.digest();
                return convertToHex(md5hash);
}

private static String convertToHex(byte[] data) {
        StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
        for (int i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
                int halfbyte = (data[i] >>> 4) & 0x0F;
                int two_halfs = 0;
                do {
                        if ((0 <= halfbyte) && (halfbyte <= 9))
                        buf.append((char) ('0' + halfbyte));
                    else
                        buf.append((char) ('a' + (halfbyte - 10)));
                        halfbyte = data[i] & 0x0F;
                } while(two_halfs++ < 1);
        }
        return buf.toString();
}

Here is code in perl

use Digest::MD5 qw(md5_hex);
my $digest = md5_hex($text);

This is 20+ lines vs. 3 lines. Java seems to make everything over-object-oriented. Why do I need to getInstance(), update and then call digest() to just get the md5 of the string?